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LINGUISTICS (Competence, Performance & Teaching)

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

It is the ability of native speakers to create and understand grammatical sentences, to detect deviant and ungrammatical sentences, and to make other linguistic judgments about utterance in their language.

a)

Language Competence

b)

Language Performance

c)

Speech Error

d)

Both A and B

2.

What allows the speaker the potentials to understand and produce utterances?

a)

Language Competence

b)

Language Performance

c)

Knowledge

d)

Speech Error

3.

What do you call the actual utterances produced by speakers of a language?

a)

Language Competence

b)

Language Performance

c)

Knowledge

d)

Speech Error

4.

To what concept did Noam Chomsky regard the relationship of competence and performance?

a)

form and substance

b)

part to whole

c)

form and part

d)

substance and whole

5.

A theory (a)   should explain sentences, which are rendered into speech sounds.

6.

What involves knowledge for using competence so that the process of sentence production and understanding can be realized?

a)

Knowledge

b)

Language Competence

c)

Language Performance

d)

Speech Error

7.

Competence is the knowledge that persons have of their grammar.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

There is a difference between having the knowledge necessary to produce sentences of a language and applying this knowledge.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Speech Error is a voluntary deviations from what we wish to say.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Sometimes

10.

Linguistic knowledge, for the most part, is a conscious knowledge.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Depends on the learner

11.

Each language has its own inventory of phonemes that may differ from that of another language.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Grammatical units such as morphemes, words, phrases and clauses are all the same across different languages.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

The use of language for social functions such as asking permission involves familiarity with modals that expresses formality and politeness.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

It depends upon the culture.

14.

The use of affixes and context clues help the students learn the meaning of words.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Knowledge of linguistics may not be useful for explaining problems concerning language learning.

a)

True

b)

False